Alexander Graham Bell

by Scott, grade 4, age 9


Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. He went to school at Universities of Edinburgh and London. Alexander Graham Bell invinted the telephone and a way to make phonograph records on wax discs. On March 10, 1878, in Boston, the first sentence was successfully transmitted by telephone.These words were said, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Bell had spilled the acid of a battery over his clothes. In 1871, Bell started to teach deaf pupils. August 2, 1922, a very sad thing happened. Alexander Graham Bell died.



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